Kaiser Aluminum · 8 hours ago
Reliability Engineer
Bellwood, VA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid Level
3+ years expKaiser Aluminum is known around the world for its superior quality and is seeking Reliability Engineers to join their onsite team in Bellwood, Virginia. The role focuses on ensuring the reliability and maintainability of equipment and processes while managing asset reliability risks to support aluminum extrusion and tubular operations.
AerospaceAutomotiveIndustrialManufacturing
No H1B
Hiring Manager
Sean Hussey
Responsibilities
Work with Engineering & Maintenance to ensure the reliability and maintainability of new, modified, and existing equipment
Responsible for the adherence of the Life Cycle Asset Management (LCAM)
Participate in factory and site acceptance testing that will assure adherence to functional specifications
Professionally and systematically define, design, develop, monitor, and refine an Asset Maintenance Plan that includes: value-added preventive maintenance tasks and effective utilization of predictive and other non-destructive testing methodologies design to identify and isolate inherent reliability problems
Professionally and systematically define, design, develop, monitor, and refine an Asset Operating Plan that will provide standardized processes and procedures for proper operation and operator care of production, utility, and auxiliary assets
Professionally and systematically define, design, develop, monitor, and refine a Risk Management Plan that will anticipate reliability-related and non-reliability related risks that could adversely impact plant operations
Develop solutions to reduce losses from repetitive failures and all other problems that adversely affect plant operations including capacity, quality, cost or regulatory compliance issues
To fulfill the responsibility listed above, this position shall apply:
Data analysis techniques that can include:
Equipment Reliability modeling and prediction
Fault tree analysis
Weibull analysis
Six Sigma methodology
Root-Cause and Root-Cause Failure Analysis (RCA, RCFA)
Failure Reporting, Analysis and Corrective Action System (FRACAS)
Analyze asset and production system performance to include:
Overall equipment effectiveness
Remaining useful life
Provide technical support to production, maintenance management, and technical personnel
Apply value analysis on equipment repair/replace/re-design
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in Engineering
Three (3) years of experience in heavy manufacturing environment
Advanced computer skills, with emphasis on condition monitoring software
Two (2) or more years of experience executing engineering projects
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Knowledge of preventive maintenance programs and the tools associated with equipment failure detection (i.e. vibration analysis, oil monitoring, thermography) as well as the software associated with them
Preferred
Certified Maintenance Reliability Professional Certification (CMRP) a plus
Strong hydraulic and/or combustion Experience
Familiar Proficiency with NFPA Standard 86 requirements
Company
Kaiser Aluminum
Kaiser Aluminum is a leading producer of fabricated aluminum products for aerospace/high strength, general engineering, automotive.
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1.07B2025-10-27Post Ipo Debt· $500M
2025-10-16Post Ipo Debt· $575M
2006-07-07IPO
Leadership Team
Keith Harvey
President and CEO
H
Hugh Barger
Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing
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